1v1 custap berry eater manaphy [QC 2/2] [GP 1/1]

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UMPL Champion
[SET]
Custap Berry (Manaphy) @ Custap Berry
Ability: Hydration
EVs: 248 HP / 32 Def / 212 SpA / 16 Spe
Modest Nature
- Hydro Pump / Surf
- Hyper Beam
- Endure
- Tail Glow

[SET COMMENTS]
* Endure + Custap Berry allows Manaphy to consistently fire off Tail Glow-boosted attacks and take advantage of Choice Item attackers such as Iron Valiant and Urshifu-S that can overwhelm stall variants.
* Hydro Pump is Manaphy's strongest available attack, significantly enabling it to beat any Metagross set with the sequence of Hydro Pump, Tail Glow, and Hydro Pump.
* The accuracy of Surf makes it a more consistent option against the super effectively hit Ground- and Fire-types of the metagame and against some stall Pokemon such as Corviknight and Pecharunt. However, the loss of power is felt against neutral targets that Hyper Beam can struggle to KO such as Hoopa-U and Garchomp.
* Hyper Beam is Manaphy's strongest special attack against Water-resistant targets, scoring KOs against targets such as Volcanion and frail Primarina variants after a Tail Glow boost.
* The defensive EV spread allows Manaphy to survive two Sludge Waves from Modest Choice Specs Volcanion and the combination of two Psychic Fangs and a Bullet Punch from Adamant Metagross, enabling it to Tail Glow as needed. 16 Speed EVs let Manaphy outpace maximum Speed Modest Volcanion.
* Volcarona is, despite intuition, an extremely dicey matchup for Manaphy. Quiver Dance and Substitute give it ample opportunities to avoid knocking Manaphy into Custap Berry range and eventually retaliate with a Swarm-boosted Bug Buzz. Partners such as Choice Band Meowscarada and Assault Vest Ursaluna can patch this weakness without sharing too many threats with Manaphy.
* Manaphy is incapable of dealing with Pokemon that can OHKO it without fearing Hyper Beam, such as Meowscarada and Ogerpon-W. It also needs to be wary of Choice Scarf + Trick users such as Cresselia and Hoopa-U. Strong Dragon-type attackers such as Raging Bolt and Haxorus fare well against these threats.

[SET CREDITS]
Set(s) by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/glitched.579035/

Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/crow-crumbs.375405/

Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lumii.493772/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nuxl.149971/

Grammar checked by:
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qc ready, i executive call added surf as a slash since pump basically theres really only 2 matchups that pump "secures".
 
* Endure + Custap Berry allows Manaphy to consistently fire off +3 Tail Glow boosted attacks and take advantage of Choice attackers such as Iron Valiant, Urshifu and Chien-Pao that normally beat stall variants.
Choice Band Chien-Pao doesn't do enough damage to beat Stall Manaphy. Also, put a comma after Urshifu. More a GP thing but Smogon likes to use Oxford commas.

Surf is a overall a much more consistent option, but the loss of power is occasionally felt and it requires the user to correctly identify the opposing Metagross set.
Super small nitpick, but it might be better to give examples of matchups where the consistency of the Surf matchup is better.

* Hyper Beam is Manaphy's strongest special attack against Water-resistant targets such as Volcanion and Regidrago.
Yes, but you also don't beat more spdef variants of Regidrago, not just AV but also like max spdef, so maybe just say frailer Regidrago sets or smth idk...

* Manaphy is incapable of dealing with Pokemon that can OHKO it without fearing Hyper Beam, such as Meowscarada and Ogerpon-W. It also needs to be wary of Trick users such as Cresselia and even Metagross, which it normally checks. Raging Bolt and Choice Scarf Hoopa-U matchup well into these threats while appreciating Manaphy's ability to check Ground-type physical attackers that they struggle against.

Another really small nitpick but probs say Choice Scarf Metagross here or smth...

yeah I don't usually have to give so many small nitpicks but this is really good as is for the most part

1/2 after implement, dm me on cord if you have any questions
 
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[SET]
Custap Berry (Manaphy) @ Custap Berry
Ability: Hydration
EVs: 248 HP / 32 Def / 212 SpA / 16 Spe
Modest Nature
- Hydro Pump / Surf
- Hyper Beam
- Endure
- Tail Glow

[SET COMMENTS]
* Endure + Custap Berry allows Manaphy to consistently fire off +3 Tail Glow boosted attacks and take advantage of Choice attackers such as Iron Valiant and Urshifu-S. and Scarf Regidrago that can overwhelm stall variants.
* Hydro Pump is Manaphy's strongest available attack, significantly enabling Manaphy to beat any Metagross set with the sequence of Hydro Pump > Tail Glow > Hydro Pump.
* The accuracy of Surf makes it a more consistent option against the super-effectively hit Ground- and Fire-types of the metagame and against some stall Pokemon such as Corviknight and Pecharunt. However, the loss of power is felt against neutral targets which Hyper Beam can struggle to KO such as Hoopa-U and Garchomp.
* Hyper Beam is Manaphy's strongest special attack against Water-resistant targets, scoring KOs against targets such as Volcanion and frail Regidrago variants after a Tail Glow boost.
* The defensive EV spread allows Manaphy to survive two Sludge Waves from Modest Choice Specs Volcanion and the combination of two Psychic Fangs followed by a Bullet Punch from Adamant Metagross, enabling Manaphy to Tail Glow as needed in these matchups. 16 Speed EVs lets Manaphy outpace fast Max Speed Modest (a lil pedantic but average reader might assume timid) Volcanion.
* Volcarona is, despite intuition, an extremely dicey matchup for Manaphy. Quiver Dance and Substitute give it ample oppurtunities to avoid knocking Manaphy into Custap Berry range and eventually retaliate with a Swarm-boosted Bug Buzz. Partners such as Choice Band Iron Valiant (we're lowkey reaching here, standard CB Ival doesn't even have Liquidation, can you think of a better example?) and Meowscarada can patch this weakness while taking advantage of Manaphy's otherwise impeccable matchups against Fire-types themselves.
* Manaphy is incapable of dealing with Pokemon that can OHKO it without fearing Hyper Beam, such as Meowscarada and Ogerpon-W. It also needs to be wary of Choice Scarf + Trick users such as Cresselia and Hoopa-U (Idt Hoopa-U really uses Trick. Could be wrong. I'd prob j remove this, since you prob j get owned by tbolt etc.). Strong Dragon-type attackers such as Raging Bolt and Haxorus fare well into these threats.

[SET CREDITS]
Set(s) by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/glitched.579035/

Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/crow-crumbs.375405/

Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lumii.493772/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nuxl.149971/

Grammar checked by:
[insert user link]

crow crumbs QC 2/2 when implemented
 
Hoopa-U (Idt Hoopa-U really uses Trick. Could be wrong. I'd prob j remove this, since you prob j get owned by tbolt etc.).
scarf hoopa can run trick, helps with corv/regi/custap dirge. custap manaphy does not get owned by scarf hoopa tbolt.

implemented rest
 
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[SET]
Custap Berry (Manaphy) @ Custap Berry
Ability: Hydration
EVs: 248 HP / 32 Def / 212 SpA / 16 Spe
Modest Nature
- Hydro Pump / Surf
- Hyper Beam
- Endure
- Tail Glow

[SET COMMENTS]
* Endure + Custap Berry allows Manaphy to consistently fire off +3 Tail Glow boosted Tail Glow-boosted attacks and take advantage of Choice item attackers such as Iron Valiant and Urshifu-S that can overwhelm stall variants.
* Hydro Pump is Manaphy's strongest available attack, significantly enabling Manaphy it to beat any Metagross set with the sequence of Hydro Pump > Tail Glow > Hydro Pump Pump, Tail Glow, and Hydro Pump.
* The accuracy of Surf makes it a more consistent option against the super-effectively super effectively hit Ground- and Fire-types of the metagame and against some stall Pokemon such as Corviknight and Pecharunt. However, the loss of power is felt against neutral targets which that Hyper Beam can struggle to KO such as Hoopa-U and Garchomp.
* Hyper Beam is Manaphy's strongest special attack against Water-resistant targets, scoring KOs against targets foes such as Volcanion and frail Primarina variants after a Tail Glow boost.
* The defensive EV spread allows Manaphy to survive two Sludge Waves from Modest Choice Specs Volcanion and the combination of two Psychic Fangs followed by and a Bullet Punch from Adamant Metagross, enabling Manaphy it to use Tail Glow as needed. 16 Speed EVs lets let Manaphy outpace Max maximum Speed Modest Volcanion.
* Volcarona is, despite intuition, an extremely dicey matchup for Manaphy. Quiver Dance and Substitute give it ample oppurtunities opportunities to avoid knocking Manaphy into Custap Berry range and eventually retaliate with a Swarm-boosted Bug Buzz. Partners such as Choice Band Meowscarada and Assault Vest Ursaluna can patch this weakness without sharing too many threats with Manaphy.
* Manaphy is incapable of dealing with Pokemon that can OHKO it without fearing Hyper Beam, such as Meowscarada and Ogerpon-W. It also needs to be wary of Choice Scarf + Trick users such as Cresselia and Hoopa-U. Strong Dragon-type attackers such as Raging Bolt and Haxorus fare well into against these threats.

[SET CREDITS]
Set(s) by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/glitched.579035/
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/crow-crumbs.375405/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lumii.493772/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nuxl.149971/
Grammar checked by:
[insert user link]

1/1 GP Team done
 
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